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- Amber and the Mughals: A Marriage the Primaries Leave Unnamed — essay · Amber — the Kachhwaha house · 14 sourcesIn the spring of 1562, at a camp near the salt lake of Sambhar, the Mughal emperor Akbar married a Rajput princess whose personal name appears in neither of the two accounts written closest to the event. Abu'l-Fazl's Akbarnama calls her only his sovereign's "fortunate daughter" [akbarnama-p243]; the Ain-i-Akbari, in Blochmann's translation, records merely that "Akbar received the Rájah's daughter at Sambhar" [ain-p329]. Her father was Raja Bihari Mal of the Kachhwaha house of Amber — Bihari Lal in the district gazetteer's spelling [gazetteer-p136] — the first Rajput chief to enter Akbar's service. What the primaries withhold, later tradition supplied: a popular name, a precise date, and a story. This essay follows what can actually be traced, source by source, and marks where tradition and record part company.
- Amber — the Kachhwaha House — Dynasty · seat of the Rajawat Kachhwahas; in Mughal service from the 1560s · Amber — the Kachhwaha houseThe Rajput house whose chief was, in Blochmann’s words, “the first Rájpút that joined Akbar’s Court” — and whose alliance became the template for every Mughal–Rajput arrangement after it.
- Raja Bihari Mal of Amber — Person · chief of Amber; died at Agra · Amber — the Kachhwaha houseCalled Bharmal in later usage and Bihari Mall in the Mughal registers — the chief whose entry into Akbar’s service in the early 1560s opened the Mughal–Rajput alliance system.
- Raja Man Singh I of Amber — Person · grandson of Bihari Mal; commander under Akbar and Jahangir · Amber — the Kachhwaha houseBihari Mal’s grandson, and the ceiling of what the alliance could deliver: the first man to hold a command of Seven Thousand, the highest rank Akbar’s system allowed outside his own sons.